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Have you had a chance to take a look at Talend’s summer 2019 product release? Our 2019 release has some exciting features that not only will help improve your productivity but will help you scale data projects across your organization. We are all about helping you do your work faster, and we think you’ll find the new features in this latest product release pretty great.
Changes to Pipeline Designer
First of all, some big changes are coming to our next generation cloud data integration design env...

Universities generate enormous amounts of data that are used for a plethora of reasons, including planning and management of revenue and donations, fees, growth and development; institutional reporting to the government; and tracking progress towards achieving goals.
The University of Sydney is regularly ranked among the top research universities in Australia and the top 50 universities worldwide. With over 70,000 students and 7,500 staff, the University generates vast quantities of data that ...

Overview
ELK is the acronym for three open source projects where E stands for Elasticsearch, L stands for Logstash and K stands for Kibana. ELK is a robust solution for log management and data analysis. These open source projects have specific roles in ELK as follows:
Elasticsearch handles storage and provides a RESTful search and analytics endpoint.
Logstash is a server-side data processing pipeline that ingests, transforms and loads data.
Kibana lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and ...

During Summer, The Talend Blog Team will relay to share fruitful tips & to securely kick off your data project. This week, we’ll start with the fourth capability: empower organizations with modern tools and systems to manage and monitor data.
Traditional tools for managing data integrity, such as data quality, governance and stewardship tools, were targeted at the most skilled data experts. With the advent of social networks, machine learning and smart pattern recognition technologies...

Save the date!
Talend Connect will be back in London and Paris in October. Join Talend executives, data experts, and thought leaders to discover new paths for delivering trusted data at speed.
Talend will welcome customers, partners, and influencers to its annual company conference, Talend Connect, taking place in two cities, London and Paris, in October. A must-attend event for business decision makers, CIOs, data scientists, chief architects, and developers, Talend Connect will share i...

Talend provides a number of Machine Learning components that can be used for a variety of purposes. I have previously described some of these various components, some in more detail than others, as well as outlining what they can do. However, one question remains, what use cases can be solved by using these Machine Learning components?
Machine learning components
Firstly, a quick overview. Talend provides a set of ‘out of the box’ components for various ML techniques. These can be classified int...

During Summer, The Talend Blog Team will relay to share fruitful tips & to securely kick off your data project. This week, we’ll start with the third capability: make sure you create a single source of trust and foster data ownership.
Create a single source of trusted data and foster data ownership
Would you imagine e-commerce without an electronic catalog or the web without search engines? Digital transformation requires single points of access to enable a wider range of people to access a ...

The word “frictionless” has emerged as a term used to describe when an action is achieved with or involving little difficulty; it is about effortlessness. This term is most commonly associated with customer experience and payments.
Amazon-like expectations
Consumers are already familiar with this term without realizing it. Retail is the perfect illustration of what being frictionless means. Driven by tech-native companies like Amazon or eBay, the purchasing journey has completely changed for cus...

In the first part of this blog two-part series, we took a deep dive on Data Shuffling techniques aiming to mix up data and allowing to optionally retain logical relationships between columns. In this second part, we will now focus on Data Masking techniques as one of the main approach to guarantee Data Privacy.
Data Masking
Simply put, masking techniques allows to block visibility of specifics fields or pieces of data. It hides data while preserving the overall format and semantic. It actually c...

During Summer, The Talend Blog Team will relay to share fruitful tips & to securely kick off your data project. This week, we’ll continue with the second capability: make sure you stay in control of your data pipelines from ingestion phase to consumption and beyond.
Get control over all the organization’s data and PREVENT shadow IT
Whenever an IT system, application or personal productivity tool is used inside an organization without explicit organizational approval, we talk about sh...

If you have got through part 1 and part 2 of this series of blogs, there are only a few more steps to carry out before you can see the end to end flow of data and create your Heatmap. If you have not read the first two blogs, the links to the blogs are above. Although these blogs have been quite lengthy, I hope you understand that I have tried to make sure that any level of experience can achieve this. Since Pipeline Designer is a new product, I felt that it made sense to be as explicit as possi...

DNA kits like 23andMe, Helix and AncestryDNA topped holiday gift guides again this past year. Kits range in the market from $60 to $200, and they’re meant to help consumers understand family history, genealogy and can even connect unknown family members. Collecting genetic data can also have broader impacts in healthcare and justice for law enforcement. We’ve seen this play out in the arrest of the suspected Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo as a result of DNA from an ancestry website.
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During Summer, The Talend Blog Team will relay to share fruitful tips & to securely kick off your data project. This week, we’ll start with the first capability: make sure the data you create, develop and share within your organization stay clean and governed.
Master data quality with trustworthy, complete and up-to-date data assets
According to Harvard Business Review, 47% of newly created data has at least one critical error. Poor data quality adversely affects all organizations on...

In this blog I would like to highlight a new capability from our latest 7.2 Studio and its integration with Talend Cloud in the Summer ‘19 release. While this feature could be seen as a light improvement aiming to ease the life of Talend users, it’s in fact much more than that!
While Talend has been delivering CI/CD capabilities for a very long time, the continuous integration tools landscape is evolving fast. Here at Talend we have kept pace to allow you to use the latest technologies and speed...

Protecting sensitive data can be a challenging task for companies. In a connected world in which data privacy regulations are continually changing, some technics offer strong solutions for staying compliant with the latest requirements such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe.
In this two-part blog series, we aim to explore some of the techniques giving you the ability to selectively share production qualit...

We’ve entered the era of the information economy, where data has become the most critical asset of every organization. To support business objectives such as revenue growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction, organizations are increasingly reliant on data to make decisions and drive their operations.
Since data is such an important strategic asset for most organizations, we wanted to know how much confidence data users (e.g. data architects, developers, and data engineers) as well as exec...

First of all, sorry about the delay in getting the second part of this blog written up. Things are moving very fast at Talend at the moment, which is great, but it’s led to me having to delay in getting this second part out. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time working with the Pipeline Designer Summer 2019 release. Some really exciting additions are coming to Pipeline Designer, but we will look into those at a later date. For now, we will start looking into configuring our AWS dat...

From its inception back in 2005 to today, Talend has always sought to be a different kind of data integration company – one rooted in open source to provide our customers with greater choice and flexibility and not afraid to change and embrace new innovations, such as multi-cloud and hybrid support and native integration with serverless cloud platforms. It gives us great pleasure to announce that Gartner is recognizing Talend as a leader for the fourth time in a row in their 2019 Gartner Magic ...

Talend 7.1 brings in many new features, one such feature which needs a special discussion is containerization, which opens the doors to design and implement new Architectures namely Microservices. With a Maven plugin the Studio is now able to Build and Publish standard Jobs as Docker images into a Docker registry. The Talend Jobs which are built as Docker images provide us portability and ease of deployment on Linux, Windows and macOS and allows us to choose between on-premise and cloud infrastr...

Earlier in May of this year we announced that Talend Cloud, our Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), will soon be available on Microsoft Azure starting in Q3 2019. For those who choose Azure as their cloud platform of choice, Talend Cloud running natively on Azure will provide enhanced connectivity options for modern data integration needs as well as better performance.
Today, we’re announcing the availability of our Early Access Program (EAP) for Talend Cloud on Azure.
As a participant i...